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Database could solve 1976 Waukesha's Jane Doe case

By the Journal Sentinel

CREATED Aug. 6, 2012

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  • Waukesha County Deputy Medical Examiner Kathryn Dougherty hopes exhumation and new tests will ID remains found in 1976. Image by Kyle Grillot

A skull, an arm bone and two bone chips found 36 years ago in a vacant Waukesha field, then later anonymously buried in the city's cemetery with a simple ceremony, could finally be given a name.